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Cluster Bombs in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, October 2001
The United States-led alliance began its air campaign in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. While the Pentagon has been reluctant to talk of specific weapons used in the bombing, ...
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It has been in the U.S. Air Force inventory since 1986 in Kosovo
U.S., British and Dutch aircraft dropped more than 1,765 cluster bombs containing more than....
cluster bomb units (CBUs) in the U.S. arsenal.
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:27:16 -0800 (PST), hcobb <henry.cobb@gmail.com
Is the SDB/FLM "Cancer Bomb" the first step in getting around the
Convention on Cluster Munitions(CCM)? (Any resemblance to an American
assault weapons limitation law that was...
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In urban areas cluster bombs can be very 20:41:27 -0600, Ian B MacLure....
On Jan 31, 5:13 am, Matt Wiser <mattwiser...@yahoo.com
While cluster bombs have been effective than the best possible weapon to design for the mission.
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Started by UncleSam_OPSEC on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at reddit):
We build the bombs and we handle other munitions such as bullets and what by hitting one of the forward magazines....
Make the bomb, or are you an ammo handler? Munitions Systems Specialist is the term but we just say "Ammo troops".
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:54 +0000 (UTC), Prevarin <poot@lob.com
The top five loan providers were Bank of America, Citigroup , JP
Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/wl_nm/us_clusterbombs_banks_3
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:48:04 +1100, Honest truth <Honest_truth@Wisdom.net
Cluster munitions are only prohibited for those nations that ratify the
Convention on Cluster Munitions...@lob.com
The Profundo report does not....
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT), nick cobb <nickkcobb@gmail.com
Published on Thursday, July 10, 2008 by The Los Angeles Times
Activists Decry New Pentagon Policy On Cluster Bombs
They say that taking 10 more years to eliminate the munitions...
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The problem with
cluster bombs, AS ISRAEL USED of these unexploded
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A colonial version of
the cluster bomb!!! These bombs exploded in air to unleash a rain of
schrapnel, yet you continue to spout off with stupidity.
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:54 +0000 (UTC), Prevarin <poot@lob.com
The top five loan providers were Bank of America, Citigroup , JP
Morgan, Barclays and Goldman Sachs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091029/wl_nm/us_clusterbombs_banks_3
Report slams...
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:48:04 +1100, Honest truth <Honest_truth@Wisdom.net
Cluster munitions are only prohibited for those nations that ratify the
Convention on Cluster Munitions to return to
his own land, he is prevented....
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:36:33 -0800 (PST), Aviroce <dudaraster@gmail.com
"The U.S., Russia and other countries refusing to sign the treaty say
cluster bombs have legitimate military uses, such as repelling
advancing troop columns." says the United...
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Squitti" <squittis@tbaytel.net
The justice system was used against the cigarette companies for
selling products that kill people.....well perhaps the international
courts should sue the manufacturers... .
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:30:20 -0800 (PST), "Caesar J .
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:58:07 +0100, Earl Evleth <evleth@wanadoo.fr
The question now is what Obama will do, or more importantly
the Senate which has historically opposed most treaties.
Nations sign cluster-bomb ban, US and Russia refuse
By DOUG...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Think four 500 pound
cluster bombs, each doing what one 2000 pound ordinary bomb could
do;tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_bomb
#begin quote
Munitions specifically intended....
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I think its very interesting that the Germans were the first to use cluster bombs units. Unfortunately they did not produce enough of them to really effect the war on the Eastern Front. The modern military have found them very useful and they are used...
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It was used dropping....
Used and where? Robert
List of Japanese World War II army bombs
Cluster bomb
* Type 2 1/3kg cluster dispenser that combined a large high-explosive charge with a cluster of incendiary bombs.
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:37:37 -0700, Walter Karmazyn <walterkarmazyn@yahoo.com
Not the international ban that the US didn't sign last year, but a step
in the the right direction...
http://www.fcnl.org/weapons/mar30_call.htm
While you're at...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
The bomblets were dropped in cluster bombs in an aerial campaign to help
U.S.-backed rebels:qkc2t498iuhbdnnb....
Stated that "cluster bombs are an excellent and
valuable weapon and I for one would never expect us.
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